6th Grade Grammar
A Person, place or thing
What is a noun
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
The five points of the plot line
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution?
Butterflies in my stomach.
A way of saying you're nervous
Describes a noun
Adjective
Takes the place of a noun
What is a Pronoun?
The problem the main character faces.
What is the Conflict?
The main thing the author is conveying.
What is Author's Purpose?
Bite the Bullet.
A way of saying you have to endure an uncomfortable or troublesome situation.
Describes a verb
Adverb
Yours, mine, his, hers, ours, theirs, its
What is a Possessive Pronoun?
The beginning of a story when setting, characters, time, and conflict are introduced.
What is the Exposition?
The part of the plot when things are starting to get intense.
What is the Rising Action?
Bite Your Tongue.
A way of saying take back what you said. or not say something.
The preposition in this sentence
The team went to the game.
TO
A noun that is a specific name and has to be capitalized.
What is a Proper Noun?
The good guy in a story.
What is protagonist?
The bad guy in a story.
What is antagonist?
Let the cat out of the bag
give away a secret
The object of the Preposition in this sentence..
The team went to the game.
Game
The word that the pronoun is referring to.
What is an Antecedent?
A character that does not undergo any change.
What is a Static Character?
A character that undergo changes.
What is a Dynamic Character?
Keep it under your hat.
Keep it secret
F.A.N.B.O.Y.S
Coordinating Conjunction
The action the subject is performing or state of being.
What is a verb?
The writer gives advanced warning of something that is going to happen.
What is Foreshadowing?
The moral or life lesson a story teaches.
What is the Theme?
In hot water
In trouble
Joins a dependent clause to an independent clause
Subordinating Conjunction
A pronoun that is performing the action of the sentence.
What is a Subject Pronoun?
The author's attitude towards the subject.
What is TONE?
The feeling a reader gets from the story.
What is MOOD?
Burn the midnight oil.
A way of saying you have to stay up late to do something.
Compare two unlike things using like or as
Simile
F.A.N.B.O.Y.S
What are Coordinating Conjunctions FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET, SO.
A story traditionally told that is sometimes regarded as history but unauthenticated.
What is LEGEND?
A story told to explain the origins of something, and contains heroes, gods and goddesses that are immortal but have human emotions and shortcomings.
What is MYTH?
Burn the candle on both ends.
A way of saying overworking mentally, or physically.
a phrase that is a common saying offering advice
Proverb
A word used to connect a dependent clause to an independent clause.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral, or life lesson.
What is a FABLE?
A particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.
What is PERSPECTIVE?
Eat your words
Saying to take back what you said, admit you're wrong
A statement that contradicts itself but can be true
Paradox
A word that ends in ING that is used as a subject of a sentence
What is a Gerund?
Learning:New::_________:Seed
What is PLANTING?
Priest : Sermon :: Judge : _______________
What is RULING?
Ignorance is bliss
Means it's better not to know bad news, especially if you're happy.
A word or phrase that follows a noun, and explains more about the noun. It is set off by commas and is not necessary to the sentence
Appositive